The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
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ern part of Kansas
A calf with eight legs and two heads
is in possession of farmer at Liver
more, Cal.
Adolphe Houssaye writes from Paris
that Albani. at sixty-two, is singing
grandiy as ever.
There are sixteen thousand colored
teachers in this country. The schools
in the South are attended by one mill
ion colored pupils.
A New York court recently decided
that where the foreman of cloak fac
tory, backed by two lady assistants de-
clares cloak to be fit, the customer
has nothing to say in the matter.
Two very ancient skeletons, supposed
to antedate the present aborigines,
have been unearthed two miles north
of Tucson. Arizona. They were in
sitting position and .encased in wall
of powders.
John c.. Calhoun, of South Carolina,
grandson of the great nullifier, has the
second largest cotton field in the United
States He was captain in the Con-
federate service at eighteen. He is
now tortv-one.
Ts@i-tien, the sixteen-year old Chi
nese emperor, has assumed the respon-
sibilities of government His wife is
great beauty. He selected her from a
lot of over one hundred girls sent to
him for inspection.
The life of large steel gun is claim
ed to be 200 rounds, with full batter
ing charges. and, as the guns cost from
$4,000 to 1919, 900, according to size,
the cost of the gun alone is thus, per
charge, from 1915 to 1875.
Officer John Seraphim, of the Phila-
delphia police force, speaks fiuently
seven different languages. Everybody
sort of place, but it was not generally
known that she had seraphim ON her
police force.
A German investigator found among
condemned criminals % per cent who
were left-handed, while a comparative
research among other persons showed
that the proportion of the left-handed
is not above 9 per cent. This is rather
a sinister estimate of the morals of left
handed people.
The catering at recent legislative
reception in Augusta, Me-, is said to
have been in keeping with other
arrangements for the affair. A Bangor
lady who attended gave a friend the
following graphic description of the
bill of fare: Every dry sandwiches,
very bad cake, wet water, very poor
ice-cream, and coffee of the same
quality
A French physician, who holds that
groaning and crying are operations by
which nature allays anguish, tells of
man who reduced his pulse from 126
to 60 in the course of few hours by
giving full vent to his emotion If
people are unhappy about anything he
advises them to go into their rooms
and comfort themselves with a loud
boo-hoo.
The production of gold during 1886
exceeded that of any previous year
since 1880, and almost equaled the pro-
duction of that year. This amounted
to $35 100000 in 1886, against $751;
100000 in 1885, an increase of over
$3,000,000. The production of silver
as nearly as can be ascerta;ned, was
$49, 1895, $50. The amount of gold
bullion imported into the United States
was 17,947 ,518 and the exports $27,-
So, 2,637.
The Indian reservations of the
United States contain 100000 square
miles, and their population is about
two hundred and sixty thousand.
Twenty-sK thousand square miles
would locate each family upon a half
section of land, leaving a surplus of
about 10000 square miles, which
would produce annually $4, 480. 900.
This amount exceeds by about $500, 900
the entire sum appropriated for the
payment of their subsistence and civili-
cation.
The feeling of protest against being
made show of is born with us. Who
has not seen little child pout and be
silent when requested to exhibit his
infantile accomplishments? Many
men would do the same if the court
estes of life did not restrain them.
They have, like the little fellows, an
inner perception that much of the
honor they are getting is undeserved,
and that more of it is insincere. As
10 the praise-seekers and pretenders,
no such consideration embarrasses
them. Philadelphia Ledger
ssWhen we first returned from our
wedding tour and set up housekeep-
ing" said a Buflalonian who some
months ago became benedict, .smy
wife would place her hand on my
shoulder when she saw me making
preparations to go DOWNTOWN, and in
an appealing tone say: Don't be in
hurry, dear; business is not pressing,
and | want to talk with You half an
hour longer. Now she glances at
the clock the moment | draw back
from the breakfast table, and anxiously
inquiries: Aren't you afraid you will
be late at the office?'
On Race Point, Cape Cod, there used
to be a big bell with clock work that
would mournfully toll it whenever it
was set going. The bell was under
cover, but projecting from the house
was long, nicely balanced lever with
a big sponge on the outer end. There
was little roof over the sponge to
keep the rain off, but when fog came
on the moisture would saturate the
sponge, and the weight bearing the
lever down would start the machine
and set the bell to tolling. If the fog
soon disappeared the sponge dried out
and the lever stopped the bell.
The cowboys have language intel
ligible only to the initiated. They call
a horse-herder a 'horse-wrangler,"
and a horse-breaker 'bronco-buster
Their steed is often ''cayuse,' and to
dress well is to rag proper" When
q cowboy goes out on the plairie he
s.hits the fiat" Whisky is ..family
disturbance" and to eat is to ..chew.''
His hat is ''cady," his whip
''quirt," his rubber coat ..slicker,"
his leather overalls are .'chaps'' or
sschaparrals, and his revolver is a
$40" Bacon is overland trout" and
unbranded cattle are ..mavericks."
A recent confagration in remote
Chinese village destroyed the ancestral
home of the family of Confucius with
all its contents texts on stone COM